Abida secale

Abida secale
Eight shells of Abida secale scale bar in mm
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Chondrinidae
Genus:	Abida
Species:	A. secale
Binomial name
Abida secale (Draparnaud, 1801) [2]

Abida secale is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Chondrinidae.

Distribution

The distribution of this species is Western European and Alpine regions. ^[3]

This species is known to occur in a number of Western European countries and islands including:

• Great Britain: England
• Sardinia
• Switzerland
• and other areas

Habitat

This species only occurs on calcareous rocks.

Subspecies

This species has a number of named subspecies:

• Abida secale secale
• Abida secale cadiensis Gittenberger, 1973
• Abida secale lilietensis (Bofill, 1886)
• Abida secale margaridae Bech, 1988
• Abida secale branopsis (Bofill, 1886)
• Abida secale vilellai Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010 ^[4]
• Abida secale peteri Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010 ^[4]
• Abida secale merijni Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010 ^[4]
• Abida secale ionicae Kokshoorn & Gittenberger, 2010 ^[4]

References

1. Páll-Gergely, B. (2011). "Abida secale". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011 e.T157127A5041945. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T157127A5041945.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
2. Draparnaud J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. pp. [1-2], 1-116. Montpellier, Paris. (Renaud; Bossange, Masson & Besson).
3. (in Slovak) Lisický M. J. (1991). Mollusca Slovenska [The Slovak molluscs]. VEDA vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied, Bratislava, 344 pp.
4. Kokshoorn B. & Gittenberger E. (2010). "Chondrinidae taxonomy revisited: new synonymies, new taxa, and a checklist of species and subspecies (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Zootaxa 2539: 1–62. 22 plates. preview.

External links

• Abida secale at AnimalBase